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Although attorney Matt Murdoch (Ben Affleck) is blind, his four other senses function with superhuman sharpness. By day Matt Murdoch represents the downtrodden. At night he is Daredevil, a masked vigilante stalking the dark streets of New York, a relentless avenger of justice. For Daredevil, justice is blind and for the guilty theres hell to pay.

Also starring are Jennifer Garner (Alias) as Matts girlfriend and sometime opponent Elektra, Colin Farrell (Minority Report, Phone Booth) as Bullseye  the assassin with the perfect aim - and Michael Clarke Duncan (Planet of the Apes) as New Yorks kingpin of crime.

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Just to let everyone know this is indeed the Director's Cut of Daredevil, and a nice release it is too.

Matt Murdoch is a morale driven lawyer in New York by day, but at night he transforms into a superhero, Daredevil, a man guided by sound alone, as he lost his sight during a toxic accident as a child. He's in love with Electra, but he has to make things right before he can make things work between them. With the difficult task of staying anonymous, he has to fight crime, and stay a sympathetic lawyer during the day.

This is a fantastic director's cut of Daredevil, totalling 2hrs and 13mins in total. Yes, there are unecessary scenes in my opinion that don't really add much to the story, but the remastering, the sound and the atmosphere really does make this film worthwhile. Knowing blind people in my everyday life I bet they'd love to be Daredevil, and I think a bit of us all whether we've got partial sight or not, we really wish we had his sound perception.

The Blu-Ray is fantastic, simply, and the picture is very good, with 30MB/s average. The 5.1 mix is actually terrifying at times because it's like it was happening in your living room. I also enjoyed the featurettes, and the commentaries with Mark Steven Johnson. There's also quite a lot of music video on this, 3 in total and a look at the music of Daredevil. Really this BD disk is packed to the very edge with goodies and I reckon you can easily spend 4 hours in total with the disk.

Impressive on all counts, shame we didn't get audio description, especially as it's about a blind superhero!

Before i went to see this film i was a bit sceptical about the thought of Ben Affleck being this type of character, he just never seemed suited to it. I was wrong however as he played the role very well, even the blind bits. In fact, all of the actors played their parts well, even though some like Jennifer Garner (who is sooooooooooo fit) as Elektra and Michael Clark Duncan as the Kingpin didnt really have much to do, which is a surprise as they were both major characters in the comics. And one thing you can tell is that Colin Farrell had a laugh playing Bullseye, he just seemed to have fun with the role.This film is also very faithful to the comic book in terms of Daredevil's origins and manages to get the story accross without confusing the viewer and does so in an entertaining way thankfully. One gripe i do have though is the fight scenes, they are too dark and not the best either, nothing compared to the fight scenes in the Blade films or the more recent X-Men 2 which were both top notch. The main example in Daredevil being the final fight with i wont say who, but this lasts for about 2 mins, and these people are supposed to be two great fighters for crying out loud and they fight for 2 minutes! Also, every fight scene just seemed flat, you never got the sense that these were two desperate fighters who had to win or they would lose more than just the fight, and only one of them lasted more than a few minutes, and this was a shame because just when the fights were starting to look interestin and entertaining, they ended. I feel that with better fight scenes that this film could have really been special because the characterisation and story telling were more or less spot on.However, it is still a dark, gritty and entertaining movie that fans of the comic will be more than happy with, i've never read the comic in my life but still knew the characters and so i enjoyed the movie a lot.

I got the director's cut a couple of days ago, but my TV not being up to much I was stuck with it in black and white, but still this is a great film. I enjoyed the original release but the director's cut has so much more, the storyline is less rushed, the added sub-plot is great with some excellent, funny moments that shouldn't have been cut and above all, there's actually some character development! There's no end of great scenes between Matt and Foggy, thinking of the dog story, whereas on the original release there were none and some great moments, especially those with Coolio in them, all of which were cut. There's less of Elektra which makes the film work much better. All in all brilliant and hopefully it will be released here soon so I can enjoy it in colour!

The reason for Marvel's success was because Stan 'The Man' Lee (the man reading the paper at the crossing in the film) attempted to put his super heroes in the real world. His readers were able to get to know and understand his characters, they did have feelings and they did tend to get hurt against the baddies. Marvel heroes spent most their time outside their costumes, because at the end of the day they had real lives to lead and being a super hero would no doubt complicate issues much further.

As an old Marvel fan I was somewhat disappointed with the first film. It got DD on the big screen so it was worth watching, but it didn't do this character any real justice. The Directors Cut, however, does. I debated whether it was worth paying the extra shekels for a few extra scenes, but it's though the whole story has been re-written. Or rather how the story should have been put together in the first place and is no doubt worthy of a sequel (alongside the Black Widow).